{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Uriah Wilson | honorific_suffix = | image = Uriah Wilson.jpg | image_size = | constituency_MP1 = Lennox | parliament1 = Canadian | predecessor1 = Matthew William Pruyn | successor1 = David Wright Allison | term_start1 = 1887 | term_end1 = 1891 | predecessor2 = David Wright Allison | successor2 = District was abolished in 1903 | term_start2 = 1892 | term_end2 = 1904 | constituency_MP3 = Lennox and Addington | parliament3 = Canadian | predecessor3 = District was created in 1903 | successor3 = William James Paul | term_start3 = 1904 | term_end3 = 1911 | birth_date = {{birth date|1841|03|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = North Fredericksburg Township, Canada West | death_date = {{death date and age|1918|02|02|1841|03|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Napanee, Ontario, Canada<ref name="johnson"/> | spouse = | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Uriah Wilson''' (17 March 1841 – 2 February 1918) was a Canadian politician.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=3184|nolist=yes}}</ref>
Born in the Township of North Fredericksburg, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario,<ref name="parl"/> his father James Wilson<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiandirector0000publ/page/605 |page=605 |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967 |editor-first=J.K. |editor-last=Johnson |location=Ottawa |publisher=Public Archives Canada |date=1968 |url-access=registration}}</ref> was a native of England and his mother came from County Tyrone, Ireland. Wilson was educated at the public school in Napanee, Ontario. He married Mary Moyle in 1867.<ref name="gemmill">{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32962/207 |page=191 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion |year=1897 |publisher=J. Durie & Son |editor-last=Gemmill |editor-first=J.A. |location=Ottawa}}</ref> A merchant, he represented Centre Ward in the Town Council in 1875, 1876 and 1878, and was Deputy Reeve of Napanee from 1879 to 1882. He was warden of the County of Lennox and Addington in 1882 and reeve of Napanee in 1884 and 1885, and Mayor in 1886.<ref name="johnson"/>
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Lennox at the general elections of 1887. A Conservative, he was defeated at the general elections of 1891, but was returned at a by-election held in 1892 after the election was declared void. He was re-elected in 1896, 1900, 1904, and 1908. He did not run in 1911.<ref name="parl"/>
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